First Post: Initial Thoughts

My first thoughts on everything that I've read so far seem to all be more feelings of confusion and anger toward what happened to the Native American people. It seems that although both colonists and native Americans did things wrong, the land and life of Native Americans were taken from them. Based on the information I've obtained so far, it seems the Native American relations with colonists started alright and then took a turn for the worst and never improved. There were peaceful relations and also relations of conflict and then eventually it was only those relations of conflict that led to brutal mistreatment of the Native American people. Something I thought about was how the treatment of Native Americans directly violated some of the most basic values our country is supposed to have. There were many key events such as wars and leaders of both colonist and Native American sides. Subtopics that we will need to explore regarding Native Americans in the United States of America are: Social equality, Political power, Outside influence, Treaties, Territories, Conflicts, and Cultural Relations. All of these subtopics will be the structure of research for our three time periods: The 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries in America.